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informed his children that they wouldn’t be getting any of his estimated £320 million fortune on his demise, Sting rubbed salt in the wound by telling two of them who did go into the music industry that it’s not all about making money. Describing his life advice to Joe, whose band Fiction Plane supported The Police on their 2007-2009 reunion tour, and Eliot, who’s released three albums, the 71-year-old says: ‘I did tell them that music is always its own reward, and it’s not about having hits or selling concert tickets or having platinum discs. ‘They said, “Well, it’s all right for you, Dad.”’

Last year Sting swelled his coffers even further, by flogging his back catalogue in a deal reportedly worth £183 million.

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